It takes Mary Shelley just two lines of the first chapter in her classic 1818 Gothic novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” to mention the titular mad doctor’s father. The book itself doesn’t focus heavily on the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his father, but Shelley took influence from her own father, who was himself […]
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